Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: If you must push into Excel (it's far easier to let it import from text), you will be using Windows, and therefore could perhaps create something with VBA. I'm usin VBA currently, the problem with it is that MS want to get away from it. And so I

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Yang Ha Nguyen
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:09:07AM +0200, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: And let's be honest a second time. MS-Office is the Standard by any means. Yes there is LaTex and yes there is OpenOffice but sorry if anyone talks about Office Software they mean

[Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Torsten Bergmann
Well VBA and Excel is well working, I doubt that OpenOffice Basic can compete with it. Yes, thats why I started to write a COM wrapper for Squeak in 2008 - unfortunately stopped due to missing time and missing callbacks in FFI. And Alien (providing callbacks) is still not available ... Using

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Janko Mivšek
Hi Friedrick, In Aida and specially Scribo CMS we now support the commercial Prince PDF generator (http://www.princexml.com). Prince converts HTML + CSS3 into nicelly formated printable documents, with page numbers, Table of contents with page numbers and such things, necessary for professionally

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: If you must push into Excel (it's far easier to let it import from text), you will be using Windows, and therefore could perhaps create something with VBA

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? Lyx!

2010-09-01 Thread Ralph Boland
I posted this earlier but never saw it show up. Apologies if it was posted but I didn't see it. Tab-delimited text is very useful; I tend to see the world in terms of R (http://cran.r-project.org/) data frames, even when I do not plan to involve R. HTML makes a nice way to scroll through

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:09:07AM +0200, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: And let's be honest a second time. MS-Office is the Standard by any means. Yes there is LaTex

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Yang Ha Nguyen
-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:09:07AM +0200, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: And let's be honest a second time. MS-Office is the Standard by any means. Yes

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Yang Ha Nguyen [cmp...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:29 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? Hi Wilhelm

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Yang Ha Nguyen cmp...@gmail.com writes: Oh, I didn't know that OpenOffice.org Basic is a spreadsheet software. Did not wrote it's software. It was about scripting the OpenOffice packages. I doubt I've ever heard of its name as an spreadsheet application. M$ Excel just works with its own

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: No argument that MS wants to kill COM in favor of .NET, and once they do that, they will churn the market again as soon as they can manage it - it's what they do. Well yes, I'm afraid you're right about it. They've been sufficiently

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Janko Mivšek janko.miv...@eranova.si writes: Hi Friedrick, In Aida and specially Scribo CMS we now support the commercial Prince PDF generator (http://www.princexml.com). Prince converts HTML + CSS3 into nicelly formated printable documents, with page numbers, Table of contents with page

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-09-01 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
Of Friedrich Dominicus [fr...@q-software-solutions.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:46 PM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: No argument that MS wants to kill COM in favor

[Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-08-31 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
I'm working slowly through Seaside, Aida, Pharo etc. I just wonder what you are using to make usable reports. (Be it in electronical form or printed). A related question, how does you interface e.g to let's say OpenOffice or maybe MS Office? Thanks for suggestions. Friedrich -- Q-Software

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-08-31 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
El mar, 31-08-2010 a las 08:13 +0200, Friedrich Dominicus escribió: I'm working slowly through Seaside, Aida, Pharo etc. I just wonder what you are using to make usable reports. (Be it in electronical form or printed). A related question, how does you interface e.g to let's say OpenOffice or

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? Lyx!

2010-08-31 Thread Ralph Boland
Tab-delimited text is very useful; I tend to see the world in terms of R (http://cran.r-project.org/) data frames, even when I do not plan to involve R. HTML makes a nice way to scroll through data. As for connecting with OpenOffice or (I can't say itg), I find LaTeX to be much nicer to

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-08-31 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: Tab-delimited text is very useful; I tend to see the world in terms of R (http://cran.r-project.org/) data frames, even when I do not plan to involve R. HTML makes a nice way to scroll through data. As for connecting with OpenOffice or (I can't

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-08-31 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez miguel.c...@gmail.com writes: El mar, 31-08-2010 a las 08:13 +0200, Friedrich Dominicus escribió: I'm working slowly through Seaside, Aida, Pharo etc. I just wonder what you are using to make usable reports. (Be it in electronical form or printed). A related

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-08-31 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
] On Behalf Of Friedrich Dominicus [fr...@q-software-solutions.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:29 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? Schwab,Wilhelm K bsch...@anest.ufl.edu writes: Tab-delimited text is very useful

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-08-31 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
-software-solutions.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:32 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez miguel.c...@gmail.com writes: El mar, 31-08-2010 a las 08:13 +0200, Friedrich Dominicus

Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports?

2010-08-31 Thread Yanni Chiu
Friedrich Dominicus wrote: Well I have thought about LaTex also. But you have to agree an Excel can not make much use of a LaTex document ;-( If you really want MS Excel, then you can easily reverse-engineer the XML format that MS Excel (optionally) uses. Not so long ago, on a paid job, I